Maria Pournari, Department of Primary Education, University of Ioannina, Greece
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Maria Pournari is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the Department of Primary Education, University of Ioannina. She has Ph.D. from Dept. of Philosophy (1994), B.A. from Dept. of Mathematics (1984) and B.A. from Dept. Of Philosophy (1988), of the University of Ioannina. Field of Expertise: Epistemology, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Science, Cognitive science, Modern Philosophy, Epistemology of Education. Main Publications: David Hume: Critique of Causation as an Attempt towards a “True Metaphysics”, Ph. D. Thesis, University of Ioannina, 1994. (in Greek), David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature, Of The Understanding, Introduction-Translation (in Greek), Patakis Publication, Athens 2005. Knowledge in the New Technologies, Peter Lang, Frankfurt 2005, and a number of papers and articles on epistemology.
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2-5 August 2010
University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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Gerassimos Kouzelis, Professor of Philosophy of Science and Sociology of Knowledge; Director of the Laboratory for the Study of Greek-German Relations, Department of Political Science and Public Administration, University of Athens, Athens, Greece
Alexandros-Andreas Kyrtsis , Professor of Sociology, Department of Political Science and Public Administration, University of Athens, Athens, Greece
Massimo Leone, Research Professor of Semiotics and Cultural Semiotics, Department of Philosophy, University of Torino, Italy
Mary Kalantzis, Dean of the College of Education, Professor of Education, Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Illinois, Urbana, USA.
Joleen Steyn-Kotze, Professor of Political Science, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University; winner of the International Award for Excellence in the area of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences awarded by the International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences.
Thomas Bley, Professor, Design Studies, University of Otago, Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand
Kyrkos Doxiadis, Associate Professor, Social Theory with special reference to Communication; Director, Social Theory and Sociology, Department of Political Science and Public Administration, University of Athens, Athens, Greece
8-11 July 2009
University of Athens, Greece
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The International Journal of The Interdisciplinary Social Sciences
Announcing Vicki Adele Pascoe and Kylie Radel of Central Queensland University, Queensland, Australia as winners of the 2008 International Journal of Learning Award for Excellence, for their paper “What are Nice Guys Like them doing in a Place Like that?”: Education Journeys from Australian Indigenous Students in Custody.
Indigenous Australians have been the subject of long-term disadvantage and discrimination. They are “nearly 16 times more likely to be imprisoned than non-Indigenous people” (Council of Social Service of New South Wales, 2006, p. 1). Just over one third of Indigenous prisoners have completed primary education as compared to just 16% of non-Indigenous prisoners (Rawnsley, 2003, p. 19). The majority of Indigenous people in custody have little opportunity to intervene in the offending cycle because they lack the education tools. Since 2000 our university has offered a Tertiary Entry Program (TEP) specifically designed for Australian Indigenous people who wish to gain the necessary skills for successful university study. More …
